Sunday, August 18, 2013

2014 Applications are now open for the CSC CommonwealthScholarships for
Masters and PhD students from developing Commonwealth countries to
study in UK, funded by the UK Department for International Development
(DFID).

Accepted Subject Areas:
All subject
areas are eligible, although the CSC’s selection criteria give priority
to applications that demonstrate strong relevance to development.

Levels of study:
You can apply for a Commonwealth Scholarship for the following levels of study:
Master’s
(from 2013, the CSC funds one-year Master’s courses only), PhD, and
split-site-PhD (where the CSC supports one year’s study at a UK
university as part of a PhD being undertaken in your home country)
You are requested to apply for a course of study at a UK university with which the CSC has a part funding agreement.

About the ScholarshipEach
year, the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission invites each nominating
agency, university or university body to forward a specific number of
nominations for the commonwealth scholarship for developing countries.
Each nominating agency/university/university body is responsible for its
own selection process, and in most cases they will set a closing date
in the months preceding the CSC’s deadline for nominations (17 December
2013).
There is a nominating agency for Commonwealth Scholarships in each Commonwealth country. In addition, universities and university bodies in
a number of developing Commonwealth countries are invited to nominate
candidates to the CSC.

Selection Criteria
Applications are considered according to the following selection criteria:

Academic merit of the candidate

Quality of the proposal

Likely impact of the work on the development of the candidate’s home country.

Number of Scholarships: Approximately
300 scholarships are awarded each year. The CSC invites around three
times more nominations than scholarships available – therefore,
nominated candidates are not guaranteed to get a scholarship. There are
no quotas for scholarships for any individual country. Candidates
nominated by national nominating agencies are in competition with those
nominated by universities/university bodies, and the same standards will
be applied to applications made through either channel.

Application Deadline: The EAS will close to applicants on 3rd December 2013 and no further applications can be made after that date.
www.scholarship-nigeria.com

How to Apply: All
applications must be made through your nominating agency (or
university/university body, if applicable) in your home country. You
must check with them in the first instance for specific advice on how to
make an application and for their own closing date. The CSC cannot
accept any applications direct from candidates.CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS

Sponsors
Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC) and UK Department for International Development (DFID).

if the nominating agency in Nigeria is the federal scholarship board,forget about it. they already have their people that will be nominated. for it to be free and fair the scholarship should allow everyone to apply individually and let the commonwealth organization select themselves. I work with a govt agency and i know how this things work, even I as a government worker is deprived of my own benefits how much more an international one

Please, when will FSB start accepting application? i have been sending the agency email yet no reply. its even as if their site is just a statue. they are still advertising bilateral scholarship, when commonwealth has been on for over a month.